Class with Sal, Steven, Jesse A, Sabrina, Chris, Elijah, Jesse B, Antonio and Mary Ann. Stretch and requirements. I instructed Mary Ann and Antonio on thrust and all their basic blocks, reviewed Sabrina’s cuts and blocks, and then taught Cutting Pattern 1 to Mary Ann and Antonio. After the break, we had 58 one on one matches (with a focus on getting Jesse his remaining matches for his White Rope requirements) and 3 melees.
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Special session of one on one sparring at Sal’s house in order to get Joshua and Jesse A more battles.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Chris, Sabrina, Elijah, Jesse B, Mary Ann and Antonio. Stretch and requirements. I worked with Mary Ann and Antonio, going through the six traditions, the three rules of swordsmanship, and all basic full circle cuts. After the break, we worked on stance and battle movement, finishing with an uncounted number of full circle cuts, then had balance 1 and 2.
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Class with Sal, Jesse A, Elijah, Jesse B, and Mary Ann. Antonio observed his second class. Stretch and then I worked with Mary Ann on stance and head, neck and decap cuts while the others went through their requirements. After the break, we armored up and had one on one sparring.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Chris, and Jesse B. Elijah was ill and observed, Mary Ann observed her second class, and Anthony observed his first class. Requirements once through and a break. After the break, we did five rounds of refined strikes, then advanced response training, and finished with Balance 1 and 2.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jessa A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Mary Ann observed her first class tonight, and Sabrina observed as well. Stretch and requirements, then a break. After the break, we had 61 one on one matches.
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Class with Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Chris, Jesse B, Elijah (and Sal observed due to injury). Requirements in the first half, and I instructed Jesse B on Mantis. In the second half, we started with a few rotations of Refined Strikes, and then moved to a combination of machinegun drill (head/neck/decap) and gamut. The attackers rotated through attacking the defender and then three attacks on the gamut, and additionally the defender wore weights on their ankles to hinder movement, the focus being on defense without evasion (a la sandy or snowy terrain).
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Class with Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Chris, and Elijah. Requirements during the first half (I worked with Chris), and then we had 43 one-on-one matches and 1 melee.
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I got the dojo ready but was unable to lead class, handing that off to Sal. No class next week at all due to my schedule conflict and Sal will be unavailable.
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Class with Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Evan observed his first class. Stretch and requirements once through, then I reviewed the Tradition. During the break, we armored up and the second half we had 54 one on one sparring matches.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements once through. During the break, I setup four stations: thrust practice (hanging rings and a hay bale), two stations of Cutting Pattern 1 on square cabers, and a balance station of four round cabers in a square. We rotated through, one to the thrust practice and two to each other station. After, we finished with a full rotation of Refined Strikes.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah, and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements once through, plus I worked with Elijah and Jesse B a little once they finished their requirements. After the break, we had one on one sparring totaling 57 matches (Sal and mine were steel).
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Class with Sal, Joshua, Steven, Chris, Jesse A, and Jesse B. First class of 2013, started with a stretch and requirements. After requirements, we reviewed Thorn, then took a break. After the break, we started with 100 full circle cuts (wood), then did machinegun drill for head or neck, and finished with a two-defender/bi-polar non-stop machinegun drill for head, neck or decap.
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Final class of 2012, with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A and Chance. Jesse B called out. We went straight into requirements tonight, myself working with Jesse A. Chance arrived late, at which time I put him with Sal. After the break, we had dagger training, covering the general mentality that weapons are everywhere in various forms, differences in knives versus daggers, and the primary (killing) targets for knives and daggers. We then did refined strikes with daggers, followed by light unarmored (except mitts) dagger sparring, and we finished with some dagger throwing.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A and Jesse B. Requirements for the first half (I worked with Jesse A). After the break, we had balance 1 and 2 plus a mud zig-zag and hurdle. It was a challenging course; Sal made it once or twice, Steven a few times, and only myself multiple consecutive times (all but two). After I closed up the formal class, I did some more steel cutting practice with another pumpkin, and Joshua, Jesse A and Jesse B stayed for it as well.
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Class with Sal, Steven and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements. I worked with Jesse, including instructing him on Double Thrust, while Steven and Sal worked together. After a break, Sal, Steven and I had one on one matches, 30 total using a five-match-set round robin to get 20 matches for each of us.
During requirements, there was rain from moderate to torrential and the ground was quite muddy. As we began sparring, the rains generally abated though the mud was still quite prevalent. -
Class with Sal, Joshua, Jesse A, Elijah and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements. I reviewed Jesse B while Sal reviewed Elijah, then I reviewed Joshua while Sal reviewed Jesse A. I also instructed Joshua and Jesse A on Warrior Stance.
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Class with Sal, Steven and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements, then a break. After the break, we did add-on for a bit, then finished with 360 machinegun drill (i.e. opponents on all sides).
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Jesse A, Jesse B and Elijah observed due to ankle injury. Requirements and a break. During the break, Sal and I did some steel parry and centered cuts. After the break, we paired off and did the Myo Sim partner drills 1 – 5 (attack, attack/block/counter, attack/block/attack, attack/block/preempt, attack/block/preempt/block/counter). We finished with balance 1 and 2.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Elijah and Jesse B. Mark H. (from kendo and karate) observed and may join at a future date. Stretch and requirements one through. After the break, we had one on one matches (Jesse logged). I tried out my new shield tonight for some of the matches.
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Class with Sal, Steven, Joshua, Elijah and Jesse B. Stretch and requirements (once through for Sal and I, twice for the other four). We took a break, during which Sal and I did steel Refined Strikes and Cutting Pattern 2, then in the second half I started with a new drill where we stood in a loose circle and every other person was designated attack left, block right, and the alternates were block right, attack left. On the count, we went back and forth, attacking any target, the blocking the incoming attack. Next we split into two groups of three and did defend/attack/observe parry. We finished with a round of three-upper-attack machine gun drill.
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Class with Joshua, Steven, and Elijah. Stretch followed by requirements. I reviewed Elijah in full while the other two worked together. Took a break to armor up, then had 27 one on one matches.
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Class with Sal, Steven and Jesse B. Stretch, then a focus session on Jumping Tiger 1 (a new move for Jesse). Followed with requirements, myself reviewing Steven to check his progress toward White Rope. After a break, Sal and I did worked briefly with steel, choosing three of our practiced moves to go over, then the main class resumed with some advanced response training, followed by refined strikes, and finishing with machine gun drill at half-ish speed, two attacks for any target (and Sal and I were permitted one counter attack).
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Class with Sal, Joshua and Jesse. Stretch and requirements the first half, then we armored up and had 24 one on one matches for the second half.
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Class with Sal, Chris, Joshua, Steven, Jesse, and Elijah. Requirements in the first half, then a break near the end of which Sal and I did steel Cutting Patterns 1 through 3. The second half I started with four dojo lengths of kneeling advances making decap cuts, followed by a study on basic movement, then 100 full circle cuts (Sal and I with steel). We finished with two-attack machine gun drill with any upper target (head/neck/decap).